2015/09/01

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

10:36

New month.

13:03

The loaders should take a KBF or provide one, depending now how it is used.

13:08

I do wonder though if I should have an abstract binary format handler like that of binutils which I can load and save classes from. They could be read- only and could also be read-write if needed. The handling stuff like Java classes would be much simpler then I can just recompile those into native combined binaries as needed. Right now much processing is done to load the class files, but I could really just map the classes directly in some binary format and work on that in a much cheaper way. Loading the data into Mutable KBFs takes a bit of time. Going for a straight ByteBuffer mapping and handling would be the fastes however. So that would probably be the most efficient route to take. The recompilers can just dump their data into the target format via wrapper APIs in nice common form. The OS itself will in most cases only use two formats: The Java class file, and some kind of my own format. I could also perform some package moving too.

13:36

For all of the architecture based stuff I can just also use ServiceLoader with base classes, however there is some duplicated code however.

14:04

The kernel building part of hairball has gotten a bit ugly a bit also. The first thing to do is have the generic binary handle Java byte code simply by wrapping much of its data.

14:36

For the binary format, an adapter would be good. Have a generic base class but then have a loader/saver of sorts which is external or where information is grabbed from. I can avoid builders which require a copy of everything. Doing it this way then grants me the ability to have lazy stuff and then adding where the adapter does not care what is added for example.

15:16

The options for recompilation could be moved into something related to the dynarec since that is where it is used rather than on the definition of an architecture. Partially anyway.

15:24

Calling it config or option is a bit bland and does not seem right. The options are related to the code generation in which all of them should use. The basic stuff I am going to do is have it just be an enum map with specific set entries (still a map but checked, value wise anyway). In other parts I am quite liking the new KernelBuilder, seems very lean. Will need to make sure that the methods I write do not get super bloated as before. However, the options are for compilation. There could also be a variance based on the architecture and there may even be per-object things too. For example, if a system has two CPUs (such as Dreamcast having a main SH4 CPU and an ARM CPU for its sound card), then there will have to be separate configurations if needed. However in most cases such a thing would not be needed because the sound card would most likely not be executing any code to be run by the user.

16:43

This code may be better than before since it will, well almost, be split in more ways that do not depend on each other.

20:10

Using an interface like that may complicate things if it is not designed correctly.